Northampton (UK Parliament constituency)
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Northampton was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Northampton which existed until 1974.
It returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until its representation was reduced to one member for the 1918 general election. It was abolished for the February 1974 general election, when it was replaced by the new constituencies of Northampton North and Northampton South.
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[edit] Boundaries
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[edit] Members of Parliament
[edit] 1295-1640
- 1295: constituency established, electing two MPs
- 1572: Christopher Yelverton
- 1604-1614: Henry Yelverton
- 1604-1611: Edward Mercer
- 1621-1622: Richard Spencer
- 1621-1622: Thomas Crewe
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[edit] 1640-1918
Year | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
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April 1640 | Richard Knightley | Parliamentarian | ? | |||
November 1640 | Zouch Tate | Parliamentarian | ||||
December 1648 | Knightley excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacant | Tate not recorded as sitting after Pride's Purge | ||||
1653 | Northampton was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament | |||||
1654 | Peter Whalley | Northampton had only one seat in the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate |
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1656 | Francis Harvey | |||||
January 1659 | James Langham | |||||
May 1659 | Not represented in the restored Rump | |||||
March 1660 | Francis Harvey | Richard Rainsford | ||||
June 1660 | Sir John Norwich, Bt. | |||||
April 1661 | Francis Harvey | James Langham | ||||
November 1661 | Sir Charles Compton | Richard Rainsford | ||||
1662 | Sir James Langham, Bt. | |||||
March 1663 | Sir William Dudley, Bt. | |||||
April 1663 | Hon. Christopher Hatton | |||||
March 1664 | Sir John Bernard | |||||
April 1664 | Sir Henry Yelverton, Bt. | |||||
1670 | Sir William Fermor | The Lord Ibracken | ||||
1678 | Ralph Montagu | |||||
February 1679 | Sir Hugh Cholmley, Bt. | |||||
August 1679 | William Langham | Ralph Montagu | ||||
1685 | Richard Rainsford | Sir Justinian Isham, Bt. | ||||
1689 | William Langham | |||||
1690 | Sir Thomas Samwell, Bt. | |||||
1694 | Sir Justinian Isham, Bt. | |||||
1695 | Christopher Montagu | |||||
1698 | William Thursby | |||||
1701 | Thomas Andrew | |||||
1702 | Sir Matthew Dudley, Bt. | Bartholomew Tate | ||||
1704 | Francis Arundell | |||||
1705 | George Montagu | |||||
1710 | William Wykes | |||||
1715 | William Wilmer | |||||
1722 | Edward Montagu | |||||
1727 | Hon. George Compton | |||||
1734 | William Wilmer | |||||
1744 | George Montagu | |||||
April 1754 | Charles Montagu | |||||
December 1754 | Hon. Charles Compton | |||||
1755 | Richard Backwell | |||||
1759 | Frederick Montagu | |||||
1761 | Spencer Compton | |||||
1763 | Lucy Knightly | |||||
1768 | Vice-Admiral Sir George Brydges Rodney | Sir George Osborn, Bt. [1] | ||||
1769 | Hon. Thomas Howe | |||||
1771 | Wilbraham Tollemache | |||||
1774 | Sir George Robinson, 5th Bt. | |||||
1780 | Viscount Althorp | George Rodney | ||||
1782 | The Lord Lucan | |||||
1784 | Lord Compton | Fiennes Trotman | ||||
1790 | Hon. Edward Bouverie | |||||
1796 | Hon. Spencer Perceval | |||||
1810 | William Hanbury Bateman | |||||
1812 | Earl Compton | |||||
1818 | Sir Edward Kerrison, Bt. | |||||
1820 | Sir George Robinson, 6th Bt. | William Leader Maberly | ||||
1830 | Sir Robert Gunning, Bt. | |||||
1831 | Robert Vernon Smith | Whig | ||||
1832 | Charles Ross | Conservative | ||||
1837 | Raikes Currie | Whig | ||||
1857 | Charles Gilpin | Whig | ||||
1859 | Liberal | The Lord Henley | Liberal | |||
February 1874 | Pickering Phipps | Conservative | ||||
October 1874 | Charles George Merewether | Conservative | ||||
1880 | Henry du Pré Labouchere | Liberal | Charles Bradlaugh | Liberal | ||
1891 | (Sir) Moses Philip Manfield | Liberal | ||||
1895 | Charles Gustavus Adoplhus Drucker | Conservative | ||||
1900 | John Greenwood Shipman | Liberal | ||||
1906 | Herbert Woodfield Paul | Liberal | ||||
1910 | Hastings Bertrand Lees-Smith | Liberal | Charles McCurdy | Liberal | ||
1918 | Representation reduced to one member |
Notes
- ^ On petition, Osborn was declared not to have been duly elected and his opponent Howe was declared elected in his place
[edit] 1918-1974
Year | Member | Party | |
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1918 | Charles McCurdy | Coalition Liberal | |
1922 | National Liberal | ||
1923 | Margaret Bondfield | Labour | |
1924 | Sir Arthur Holland | Conservative | |
1928 | Cecil L'Estrange Malone | Labour | |
1931 | Sir Mervyn Manningham-Buller | Conservative | |
1940 | Gerard Spencer Summers | Conservative | |
1945 | Reginald Thomas Paget, later Baron Paget of Northampton | Labour | |
1974 | Constituency abolished |
[edit] Election results
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[edit] References
- Robert Beatson, "A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament" (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) [1]
- D Brunton & D H Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
- Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808) [2]
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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Preceded by vacant. Last was Cambridge University in 1806 |
Constituency represented by the Prime Minister 1809 - 1812 |
Succeeded by vacant. Next was Newport (Isle of Wight) in 1827 |
Categories: Parliamentary constituencies in Northamptonshire (historic) | United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1295 | United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1974 | United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies represented by a sitting Prime Minister | United Kingdom historical constituency stubs